Thursday, November 17, 2011

Lewis Warsh (English Department) will be reading as part of the launch party in celebration of the publication by Ellipsis Press of The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen.

When

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

7:00 pm

WhereKGB Bar

85 East 4th Street

New York City, NY

Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including two collections of short fiction, The Traveling Woman (Vehicle Editions) and Certain People (Coffee House Press); a novella in short short stories, The Daughter (Autonomedia); a memoir, Amazon Dream (City Lights); the novelThe Dreaming Girl (Painted Leaf, 2000, and Ellipsis Press, 2011). Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years and has also taught at Columbia University. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. She has exhibited her visual art worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Lewis Warsh is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, includingInseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books), A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil), The Origin of the World (Creative Arts) and A Free Man (Sun & Moon). He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

HSM 110 Brooklyn Campus Town Hall: Dialogue for Social ChangeProfessor Deborah Mutnick (English Department)Thursdays 3-5:30 PMFor English majors, this Honors-Program course may be used to satisfy an English elective requirement in the Literature concentration, or a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration, a writing-and-rhetoric workshop requirement in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration, or a literature requirement in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
Non-English majors can apply this course toward a minor in English. Please discuss your plan with Wayne Berninger in the English Department.
Non-Honors students must see James Clarke or Cris Gleicher in the Honors Program Office to get permission to take this course.

Please join us at the Brooklyn Historical Society [BHS] this Sunday, November 20, 2011 from 2-4 PM for a program on Civil Rights in Brooklyn: Stories of Struggle and Protest, planned in conjunction with the Pathways to Freedom learning community that English-Department Professors Michael Bokor, Sara Campbell, and Deborah Mutnick are teaching this semester.
Please pass this information along to anyone you think might find the program interesting. All BHS events are free during the three years of our partnership with the Society to anyone with an LIU ID.
Fifty years ago the freedom riders rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the Supreme Court ruling against Jim Crow laws. Those riders traveled the roads of Mississippi and Tennessee, but how did the civil rights movement play out on the streets of Brooklyn? How did freedom ride into local neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, government, and arts and culture? A panel of activists will address Brooklyn as a site of struggle and protest, followed by audience “talk back” with more stories and Q&A. Attendees will be invited to tell their own stories about the civil rights movement, past and present. This program is free with museum admission.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

This course explores black female creativity across disciplines. The aim of the course is to construct potential theories of black female creativity. That is: determine if black women share any common impetuses (historical, biological and/or cultural) that compel them to make artistic products that comprise a tradition of works. We begin by examining theories of black female creativity from several perspectives including that of Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange along with contributions from the likes of Monique Wittig and Robert Farris Thompson. Then we study a variety of primary texts from literature (novel, poem and play); art (photography, textiles, and mixed media pieces); oratory (sermon and speech); and performance (music, fashion, dance, drill teams and jump rope). Required texts include Flash of the Spirit, Beloved, and handouts. Assignments include informal writing, midterm, final exam, and recovery project with presentation. Prerequisite: English 16

Male in America: Black, White, Straight and Gay

Humanities 183: Wed. 6:00- 8:00

Profs. Eric Lehman and Orlando Warren: 3 credits:

This course explores the American male from multiple vantage points in text, film, art, and music. Prerequisite: English 16

Femme Fatales and Women of Color

Independent Study, Tues. 6:00-8:00

Prof. Orlando Warren: 718 488-1053: 3 credits

In the film noir genre the femme fatale is the epitome of irreverence, ambiguity, and, fear. Prerequisite: English 16

African Cultures

Anthropology/Sociology 133: Tues. 12:00-2:30

Prof. Yusuf Juwayeyi: 3 credits

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Race in the Americas

Anthropology/Sociology 512: M 6:10-8:00

Prof. Halbert Barton: 3 credits

The course focuses on how culture and history shape the experience of racial categories in the Americas. Prerequisites: Intro. to Anthro. and instructor’s permission.

Summer I: 2012

African American Narrative Fiction

English 150: M/W 2:00-4:50

Prof. Carol Allen: 3 credits

This course looks at fictional and nonfictional narrative accounts by African American writers from the Slave Narrative to Barack Obama’s recent autobiography. Prerequisite: English 16

Black Women in Cinema

Independent Study, TBA: 3 credits

Prof. Orlando Warren: 718 488-1053

This course will focus on Black women in film from the mid 1930’s to the mid 1970’s. Prerequisite: English 16.

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Contact Professor Carol Allen (English Department) at Carol.Allen@liu.edu or 718 488-1053 for more information these courses and/or about the Africana Studies minor program.

KGB is a beautiful bar in the East Village with a fascinating history. If you have never visited, check it out!...Free admission

Readers:

ERIC ALTER has been published in Spectrum, the Brooklyn Paramount, Downtown Brooklyn, and By the Overpass. You can find himon Mt. Loretto Beach, in Staten Island, every Friday morning making sculptures.

RYAN BUYNAK is a very good-looking young man who happens to be the future of American poetry.

DEBORAH HAUSER is the author of the poetry collection Ennui: from the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Femine Disorders (Finishing Line Press, 2011).

R. NEMO HILL is editor of EXOT BOOKS, and author of Pilgrim’s Feather (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002), The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press, 2004), and Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire (Modern Metrics, 2006).

ELIEL LUCERO has served as co-editor of Acentos Review, been an Urban Word mentor, a facilitator with the Alzheimer's Project, and Production Manger at the Bowery Poetry Club.

VICTORIA LYNNE McCOY's work appears in The November 3rd Club, PANK, Mudfish 17, and Union Station Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.

ROBERTO F. SANTIAGO writes placing pen to paper and fingertips to QWERTY, all as an act of translation. He also writes and produces music, and has been known to dance until he rips his pants.

MARK WISNIEWSKI's Mark Wisniewski's second novel, Show Up, Look Good, is published by Gival Press in fall 2011. His poetry has appeared New York Quarterly, Tribeca Poetry Review, and Poetry.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Willie Perdomo (grad student, Creative Writing MFA program) will lead a writing workshop called Poetry, Lyricizing and Speaking at the University of Miami in January 2012.

From the University of Miami website:

"The University of Miami's MFA in Creative Writing Program and VONA Voices Writing Workshop announce the first VONA/Voices regional writing workshop to be held January 13, 14, and 15, 2012 at the University of Miami. The Voices of our Nations Arts Foundation is dedicated to nurturing writers of color and has been holding summer workshops for twelve years in the Bay Area."